My friend, Morgan, over at rocking paper & scissors had the most adorable list on planet earth when she shared “the fewest few” of her favorite fictional couples. She’s overseas right now (lucky little duck), so I imagine she’d have loaded the list with scores more lovey guys and gals if she’d had more time. Hopefully, I’ll do a pretty okay job of picking up where she left off until her next installment, especially since I detect there’ll be some overlap in our choices! What can I say, we have amazing and almost identical taste.
Same with Morgan, I’ve got these in no particular order and there are plenty more with these came from.
I wish this was better quality.
I couldn’t find a satisfactory still of my first couple, but that’s no mind because this scene – wherein Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes kiss for the very first time – is adorable enough. Now, unless you watched Gilmore Girls, though, you won’t really understand the banter and awkwardness that makes this couple, which is extremely prevalent throughout the scene (and much of their relationship). Don’t even get me started on Luke’s surprise daughter, Luke and Lorelai’s breakup, Lorelai’s dumb and short-lived marriage to Christopher, and that absolute sham of a final season and series finale, though. I like to remember them in simpler times, thank you!
I searched high and low for an illustration of Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson together, to no avail. And, while I, of course, enjoyed Emma Watson and Max Thieriot playing the parts in the 2007 film, I just really enjoy having my own mental image of my favorite literary couple. We all know how much I love Ms. Drew (hello, look at this website’s title and handle!), and my love for Ned could equal hers. He can be a bit of a ninny, and he might not give her the credit she’s due in how amazing she is at catching the bad guy, but he loves her unconditionally anyway.
In my favorite book of last year, Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, writer Chelsea Cain paints a different story – while married to Ned, Nancy’s actually in love with Frank Hardy, of the Hardy Boys!
How often in life have you had that “oh my God, I love Josh!” revelation? It doesn’t happen as often as you’d imagine, and the odds of that revelation actually leading to mutual feelings is probably astoundingly low. Throw in the strangeness of this person being sort of, kind of, ex-related to you, in a way, and there’s weirdness all around. Maybe I wasn’t such an on-point! movie-watcher back then, but I had no idea this Cher Horowitz-Josh Lucas romance was budding until just before it blossomed. Clueless was a film I watched endlessly and still managed to get all goosepumpy during the pseudo-montage of awkward scenes between these two until their “legs crossed towards each other”. Looks like I know what I’ll be watching today!
The facts are these: Ned Piemaker (the dude had no last name!) has a unique and unexplainable gift of bringing the dead back from the dead with a touch of his finger. Once said dead person is back from the dead, Ned has one minute to put them back to death by touching them again, or someone else will die. After the minute is up, the newly undead’s impending re-death is still always at the fate of Ned’s touch. Childhood sweetheart, Charlotte Charles (known as Chuck) died. Ned hadn’t seen her since he was shipped off to boarding school after his mother and her father died (as a result of him finding out about his gift). When he sees her again, dead, he brings her back to life (there is more to this, but I’d be typing fah dayz) and keeps her alive, thus unintentionally – but kind of intentionally – killing someone else. Now, though, he can never touch her again. Imagine being so in love with someone, but knowing the second your skin grazes theirs, they’ll be dead. IMAGINE IT, I SAID! I have never, in my entire little life, held my breath throughout anything the way I did while watching Pushing Daisies. The chemistry and absolute adoration between Chuck and Ned is indescribable, and I DARE YOU to watch one episode and not feel on-edge and happy and jealous and butterflies and sad and joyous and in love with life – all at the same time. I said none of these couples were in any sort of order, but fuck if I’m not going to say Chuck and Ned are my favorite couple of all time! Fictional or non-! Looks like I know what else I’ll be watching today!